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by psyklic 6y ago
In my last startup, many investors regularly scheduled meetings without investing. A company newsletter could be a more productive way to keep them and early customers in the loop.
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by psyklic 6y ago
This site has the ultimate guide for self-learning logic: https://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/ (TYL: Teach Yourself Logic)
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by psyklic 6y ago
A lawyer is the best idea -- they deal with these things every day. Once upon a time, I received advice from trusted non-lawyers and ended up in a very bad situation. Since then, I have passed most contracts by lawyers first.
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by psyklic 6y ago
Here is an interesting Cornell reading group+papers on the history of Instruction Set Architectures - https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs7491/2020sp/
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by psyklic 6y ago
There is a very nice set of bioinformatics coding challenges here: http://rosalind.info/problems/locations/
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by psyklic 6y ago
In Rust, shadowing is when you "declare a new variable with the same name as a previous variable" [1] -- even in the same scope. It seems it "fell out" of how the original compiler was implemented, and there was more sup
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by psyklic 6y ago
I am suspicious of this 100ms rule. TVs operate at ~30 frames per second (33ms/frame), and humans can see obvious differences (e.g. when scrolling fast on smartphones or playing a FPS game) even at 60 fps (17ms/frame). The Remarka
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by psyklic 6y ago
I worded these strongly because in my first startup I had complete trust in my co-founder and always assumed best intentions, even when it became obvious I should not. In retrospect if I had recognized some of the above as red flags earlier
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by psyklic 6y ago
• Keep digging until you get answers if your co-founder excludes you from decision making, hides important things from you, or ignores your questions. • If your co-founder repeatedly makes misleading or false statements and it makes you unc
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by psyklic 6y ago
https://restofworld.org/ initially loads <1M. But when you scroll down, it balloons to 3M as it loads more images. Should that count?
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by psyklic 6y ago
The key is to do lots of problems. Toward this, I highly recommend "The Art of Problem Solving" which is packed full of neat insights and interesting problems from math competitions (at an "advanced high school" level).
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by psyklic 6y ago
Also: Beyond Compare - https://www.scootersoftware.com/features.php (Mac+PC+Linux)
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by psyklic 6y ago
Apparently 20-30% of cases have an imminent rupture requiring surgery. Of those who take antibiotics, 40% require it to be removed via surgery within 5 years. Source: https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/
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by psyklic 6y ago
It's not a bank, but Amazon lets you download very detailed purchase history as a CSV file (over any time period).
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by psyklic 6y ago
I highly recommend having one! Based on analytics, I know it has contributed to me getting all of my best job offers, from a PhD position to industry gigs. Interviewers have commented positively on the style (in my case "hackerish&quot
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by psyklic 6y ago
If your goal is learning and understanding, reading papers won't be a waste of time. If you need good results fast, they are less likely to be useful.
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by psyklic 6y ago
Well, the main source I could find regarding the political affiliation of trending tweets was Trump. For example: "Trump blasts 'trending' section on Twitter: 'Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!&#x2
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by psyklic 6y ago
Nice find! Based on this data, it does seem that contributions from Twitter employees are overwhelmingly to Democratic causes.
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by psyklic 6y ago
Couldn't the userbase be more to blame than Twitter? Pew Research says that "Twitter users [are] more likely to be Democrats" [1]. Also, 80% of all Tweets mentioning national politics were apparently made by users who "s
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by psyklic 6y ago
I suggest focusing on problems that interest and challenge you, and not worry if others consider them "hard" or not. The interview question probably depends more on how you explain the problem, rather than its actual difficulty.
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by psyklic 6y ago
You show admirable qualities that good programmers have. For example -- boldness to take on a challenging project, tenacity to pursue a rewrite, and drive to pursue improvements such as parallelism. After all, if you only pursue easy projec
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by psyklic 6y ago
This is really excellent advice. Thanks for taking the time to write it!
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by psyklic 7y ago
@atum47 - Fun game! How were the optimal number of moves determined?
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by psyklic 7y ago
Many of our part-time team members lost motivation after our first pivot. They were first sold on the original vision, and they did not see that same vision in the product we pivoted to. Others believed we pivoted too quickly without fully
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by psyklic 7y ago
I use a popup dictionary app that shows the definition when I long press. It stores my lookup history, which I periodically copy and quiz myself on. (I use and recommend "Look Up - A Pop Up Dictionary" on Android.)
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by psyklic 7y ago
Thanks for pointing these out, very interesting! I amended the parent so others aren't misinformed (with credit to you). I discovered this because the Rust standard library's `canonicalize` function actually returns paths in exten
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by psyklic 7y ago
Interestingly, "unholy mixes" of slashes only always work properly in old Windows paths! I found this out when debugging an open source project where '/file.txt' (hardcoded as a forward slash) was appended to a &q
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by psyklic 8y ago
If you are motivated to do the math, I'd definitely do the math/stats MS. You can learn the current tech in your spare time or on the job, particularly with all of the good online courses. Having a BS CmpE + "practical-orient
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by psyklic 8y ago
You may be interested in the NSF-funded Molecular Programming Project -- http://molecular-programming.org/ . Projects listed there include "gro: the cell programming language" and "DNA origami" -- designi
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I highly recommend the courses on brilliant.org. They are not axiomatic, but they heavily focus on building up deep insight rather than mechanical problem solving -- https://brilliant.org . That said, for a rigorous proof-based a

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